How does /lit/ feel about John Fowles?

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>>9128667
More like John Fowl! HA!

Dirty old man.

I've read The Magus and The Collector.

I read both very quickly and they both seemed really fun at first, but it becomes evident quickly that he's relying mostly on cheap tricks and plot twists to keep you interested. I got to the end of each and felt a real emptiness. He desperately wants to be seen as literary (see e.g. his repeated forcing of the most obvious references to Dickens and others) but really can't be as long as his writing is so reliant on genre-style tricks.

I start off by feeling his belly, then I move down his legs.

>>9128709
AHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

>>9129609
>The Collector

I read The Collector when I first started getting into /lit/, but I didn't finish it because I thought it was too creepy. Given your opinion, would you still recommend The Magus?

>>9129737
They're not that similar, but I had no problems with creepiness so I'm maybe not the best person to ask.

The Magus is way more of a page-turner, but (as I mentioned) that's not necessarily a good thing.

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>>9129786
Intersting. Thanks for your opinion. Who are some writers you like, anon? Any works you'd recommend to a stranger over the internet?

>>9129793
I really don't read much stuff like Fowles, which is probably why I'm not super high on him. Some writers I really like who aren't talked about a lot here are Jacques Roubaud (especially if you're into math) and Steve Erickson.